09/09/2009-20:11:06
RE: Préampli NEUMANN W444sta
Bonjour,
Quelques détails supplementaires sur ce préampli tirée d'un post sur un site americain ou j'avais ouvert une discution :
"They all were built after the very strong regulations of the "ARD-Pflichtenheft 3.1" of the german broadcasters society.
But you have to know, that this Faders, as also all other modular amps and equalizers are filtered between 40Hz and 15kHz for the broadcast use.
It's possible to change their frequency band transmission characteristics to "hifi", by changing (or bridging) some RC parts.
A frequency band down to 5Hz or near DC, like some hifi crap offers (and nobody needs this), is not possible with this studio stuff in cause of the transformer balanced I/O with 600 Ohms impendance."
"It is ruler flat from 40Hz to 15kHz. But if I remember, it's only down -3db at 20Hz and -1db at 20kHz. So it's not so bad. I thought about removing it but decided to leave it alone. One poster on the internet says that if you remove the filter, you may lose the musicality of the unit also. He says it's the filter that also gives it its nice sound. I do not notice any lack of frequency extremes with the W444STA. In fact, it has the nicest bass of all my preamps. The area where it loses out is in the details and transparency of the mids and highs. It's a nice, smooth preamp but lacks the finest detail. My friends think it is the best value preamp around though."
Stéphane
Quelques détails supplementaires sur ce préampli tirée d'un post sur un site americain ou j'avais ouvert une discution :
"They all were built after the very strong regulations of the "ARD-Pflichtenheft 3.1" of the german broadcasters society.
But you have to know, that this Faders, as also all other modular amps and equalizers are filtered between 40Hz and 15kHz for the broadcast use.
It's possible to change their frequency band transmission characteristics to "hifi", by changing (or bridging) some RC parts.
A frequency band down to 5Hz or near DC, like some hifi crap offers (and nobody needs this), is not possible with this studio stuff in cause of the transformer balanced I/O with 600 Ohms impendance."
"It is ruler flat from 40Hz to 15kHz. But if I remember, it's only down -3db at 20Hz and -1db at 20kHz. So it's not so bad. I thought about removing it but decided to leave it alone. One poster on the internet says that if you remove the filter, you may lose the musicality of the unit also. He says it's the filter that also gives it its nice sound. I do not notice any lack of frequency extremes with the W444STA. In fact, it has the nicest bass of all my preamps. The area where it loses out is in the details and transparency of the mids and highs. It's a nice, smooth preamp but lacks the finest detail. My friends think it is the best value preamp around though."
Stéphane
Club double 16"
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"Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler"